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Agreed. I was just surprised by his statement.

if Bradley doesn't show something before the end of this season, I can't see him as the incumbent CFer in 2015.

Neither Napoli or Craig built much trade value this season.

XB and Bradley back to back is brutal. Kruk says that Bradley was late on BP fastballs before the game.

I am just curious regarding the packages that he was offered.

If he can't get healthy, we will not be able to move him. If he gets healthy, I'd prefer to keep him.

Cherries is saying that they had some attractive prospect packages available for Lester and Lackey, but he went for the quick rebuild. Interesting.

How long can Buch hold this lead?

Pedroia never mails it in. Way to go!

Head up Ass Disease. Little League kids know to make the throw home.

Him and Webster will have the training staff buying Depends like crazy.

He cannot be the centerpiece of our staff next season.

Sometimes it is easier not to disagree with someone when there is no evidence to the contrary -- just based on wanting the other person to be wrong. LOL!!

Victorino is one of those guys that is just a winner. The team is better off with him in the lineup than all of the other guys that you mentioned.

Bogey ends the inning with a DP leaving more RISP. I think Fred might be right about the guy.

Send Bradley to the bench. I don't care what defensive WAR indicates. The guy stinks with a bat in his hands.

Someone post the lineups please.

Corrected. ^

When he took that funny step hitting the bag, I thought, you have got to be kidding. Hopefully, it was a minor tweak.

I agree with this completely. However, I don't think they expected that the season would blow up so quickly and so dramatically. The problems were evident from opening day. They decided to be patient. That's understand able to a point, but they failed to make adjustments on the fly to help address the needs of the team. The one move they made (Drew) was too late and ill-advised. It accelerated the team's demise. If nothing else, they have given Bradley a good long look -- long enough to know that he is a long way from being proficient enough offensively to hold down the CF job. They have seen enough from Bogaerts to know that he is not going to be the next Pujols. The only question left is whether he can handle SS defensively. If so, he can probably do enough offensively to stick. If they had not acquired Drew, they would already know the answer.

But they did screw things up this year. Their prior success doesn't change that. Will they get this on the right track and what is the timeline are the 2 open questions. Based on the moves at the deadline, it looks like they are building to improve in 2015. It also looks like they have a lot of work to do rebuilding the 2015 staff.

Nomad and Jim Rice were some pretty good RH hitters. Manny wasn't bad either.

Other than Jacko, no one is calling the good years an aberration. If you want to talk about how to fix this team join in. There has been a lot of discussion about that. If you want to whine that the FO doesn't get blamed for this year, I am not interested. They get they credit when the team succeeds and the blame when they lose. That's a given and not up for a debate.

Lol! I don't think the fans on the internet make it a difficult town to play in. No one pays attention to that. What has always made Boston a tough place to play is the media coverage. Print media was brutal to Ted Williams, Yaz and Rice. They murdered managers. Believe it or not, they are not nearly as nasty today as they used to be. There is much more coverage today and more intrusion on their privacy in the clubhouse, but for the most part the coverage is benign. The fans at Fenway are great. I can't remember one of our guys in uniform getting booed, not even a psycho like Carl Everett. So, stop it with all this nonsense.^ Every year stands on its own. That's the way it works. They did a great job last year and they got kudos from everyone. This year was a total implosion and they deserve the blame. Everything else is just a rationalization or excuse. Bad luck? Please. If we are going to attribute this season in part to bad luck, then maybe some of last year was good luck? The good luck last year did not turn a 95 loss team into a 95 win team just as this years bad luck didn't turn a 95 win team into a 95 loss team. The critics didn't make this team suck. This was a terribly constructed team. Last year's World Championship matters to the extent that this FO crew gets a mulligan for this atrocious performance. If they had been eliminated by Tampa in the ALDS, the FO would be getting cleaned out after this season along with the roster.

I am not unhappy about not seeing playoff baseball this season. I never expected that this would be a playoff team. What has transpired has been far worse than missing the playoffs. We have had almost no meaningful baseball since opening day. Beyond that, the team has played embarrassingly poorly and they have been boring to watch. They put out a team that has been so uninteresting and amateurish that i actually turned to boring soccer for entertainment. This hadn't been rebuilding. This was an imploding collapse.